"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)."Erik Keilholtz

Under the patronage of St. Tammany

Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children.Email

But Mitt Romney, when all's said and done, keeps coming down on the right side.

Remarkable that in Massachusetts it has taken a Mormon governor from a minority party to step into the breach and eloquently present the arguments that a Catholic politician – at least one Catholic politician, in a state dominated by them – once would have been expected to make.